Title: Take Me To Sonoma
Chapter1: Family Reunion
Author: Writergirl89
Fandom: New Girl
Rating: R (for limes/lemons/language)
POV: Third-Person
Pairing: Nick/Jess
Summary: Jess drags Nick to her family reunion in Sonoma Valley. The change in scenery proves to aid in the development of their relationship.
Author's Note: Hey! Sorry I've been gone soo long! My muse has been taking me other places entirely lately and I haven't had any inspiration for this fandom either. I have no idea how far this will go but, I do know it's gonna lots more chapters than my other stories here. I'm also formulating another fic based off a prompt that the lovely Writerforlife22 sent me (don't you worry girl! I haven't forgotten!).
Disclaimer: Don't own anything (except for some members of Jess's family, apparently).
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It's a busy Wednesday at the bar when she asks him and he knows that she wants to ask or say something because she's doing that kid thing of looking at him then sighing loudly enough for him to hear for five minutes straight (a childish habit he's grown to tolerate simply because he adores her because God help her if he didn't).
That and she's fidgetting like a nervous teenager at the principal's office. A tick he's sure she picked up from one of her students.
Also, she picks her nails. Who does that?
"Jess, stop doing that." He finally snaps and the sound of his voice makes her jump.
"Sorry, what?" She asks in that very Jess way of hers and he realizes that she sounds a bit... maudlin. A little sad.
He almost wants to do what he normally does and snarl about her fidgetting and nail picking and sighing but, the sadness in her voice catches him off-guard and his instincts (what she calls his boyfriend instincts) tell him something's wrong.
"What's wrong?" He asks a great deal gentler than his voice sounded before and he leans forward to grab her attention more.
She stares at her feet for another five minutes before her face scrunches up in that adorable way that it does before finally meeting his eye and sighing again.
"Jess, what?" He tries to encourage, his patience already leaving him.
She looks down quickly and then up again blurting out: "I have a family reunion!"
"Family reunion?"
"On Saturday."
"On Saturday?"
"In Sonoma Valley."
Sonoma Valley? Really?
"What's so bad about that?" He asks because despite the premiere dysfunction in his own family, he'd actually wanna go and see his uncles get drunk and have a pissing contest anyday.
"Welll..." She trails off, looking away from him and he suddenly becomes suspicious at the way her face reddens.
"Well?"
"They, ah... sorta... want me to... bring my... boyfriend." She manages to produce gracelessly.
It takes a moment to realize what she said to him and when it does, he feels clammy about it. "What?"
"They want me to bring you but, that's okay because I told them you wouldn't be interested in going and we haven't been, you know, a thing for that long and yeah, I'm okay with it. It's not that big of a deal." She finishes, picking at her fruity drink and it hits him then.
That's why she's been acting down. Not because of the family reunion but, because she knows him well enough to know he'd put up a fight and not wanna go but, again, she's Jess and she's not like any other girl on Earth so, she won't get angry about it and yes, he feels like a jackass right now.
So, he makes a quick decision then.
He's going.
He is going to Sonoma fucking Valley.
Oh, God.
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A/N 2: Ha! Hope you liked! And no, I've got no beef against Sonoma. I haven't even been there but, I've seen pictures so, obviously I know it's pretty but, if any of you have gone, please tell me. I'd like to hear about it.
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